Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 8, Issue 3, 2012

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied for the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) studies of antitumor activity of acridinone derivatives. Molecular modeling studies were performed with the use of HyperChem and Dragon computer programs and molecular geometry optimization using MM+ molecular mechanics and semi-empirical AM1 method, and several molecular descriptors of agents Read More

A novel series of 3'-C-ethynyl and 3'-C-(1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazolo) double-headed pyranonucleosides has been designed and synthesized. Reaction of 3-keto glucoside 1 with ethynyl magnesium bromide gave the desired precursor 3-C-ethynyl-1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-α-D-allofuranose (2). Hydrolysis followed by acetylation led to the 1,2,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-3-C-ethynyl-β-D-allopyranose (3). Compound 3 was c Read More

A series of fourteen (14) N-nitrophenyl-N'-(alkyl/aryl)urea and symmetrical 1,3-disubstituted urea derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their antidepressant activity in mice. Among them, N-(4-nitrophenyl)-N'-(1'-phenylethyl)urea (1), demonstrated profound antidepressant property as reflected by significant reduction in the immobility time (89.83%), whereas compounds 2-6 showed activity values between 36 to 59% w Read More

A series of 2-(1H-Benzotriazol-1-yl)-N'-[substituted]acetohydrazides were designed & synthesized keeping in view the structural requirement of pharmacophore and evaluated for anticonvulsant activity and neurotoxicity. The new compounds were characterized using FT-IR, 1H NMR, mass spectral data and elemental analysis. The anticonvulsant activity of the titled compounds was assessed using the 6 Hz psychomotor seiz Read More

When a benzenesulfonyl moiety (BS) was bound to the N-piperazinyl ring of antibacterial fluoroquinolones (AMFQs) norfloxacin (NOR) or ciprofloxacin (CIP), the resulting benzenesulfonyl-fluoroquinolone (BSFQs) analogs showed an improved in vitro activity against Gram-positive strains. A bioisosterical replacement of the sulfonyl group for a carbonyl group led to the benzenecarboxamide-fluoroquinolones (BCFQs Read More

A novel series of polycyclic amines, containing nitrogen monoxide donating moieties, were synthesised and tested for calcium channel and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor modulating activity. The synthesised compounds were classified into two groups, based on their nitrogen monoxide donating moieties: unsaturated nitro compounds (1, 2 and 3) and nitro esters, or nitrates (4, 5 and 6). The nitrates were obtained via the Read More

Taking advantage of our in-house experimental data on 3-cyano-2-imino-1, 2-dihydropyridine and 3-cyano-2- oxo-1,2-dihydropyridine derivatives as inhibitors of the growth of the human HT-29 colon adenocarcinoma tumor cell line, we have established a highly significant CoMFA and CoMSIA models (q2 cv =0.70/0.639). The models were investigated to assure their stability and predictivity (r2 pred= 0.65/0.61) and successfully Read More

A novel trinuclear platinum compound with a cis-geometry for terminal metal centres coded as QH1 has been synthesized, characterized and investigated for activity against the human ovarian A2780, A2780cisR and A2780ZD0473R cancer cell lines. The cellular accumulation of platinum, level of platinum-DNA binding and the nature of interaction of the compound with pBR322 plasmid DNA have also been determined. QH Read More

Two series of compounds with the general formula of 4,6-diaryl-2-oxo-1,2 dihydropyridine-3-carbonitriles and their isosteric imino derivatives were synthesized through a one pot reaction of acetophenone, aldehyde and ammonium acetate with ethyl cyanoacetate or malononitrile, respectively. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for tumor cell growth inhibitory using the human HT-29 colon and MDA-MB-231 breast tum Read More

The anti-inflammatory effect of two new thiazoles derivatives CX-32 (N-[4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-thiazol-2-yl]acetamide ) and CX-35 (4-(2-amino-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)-2-methoxyphenol), was investigated in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cell line. Synthesis, structure analysis and purity of these compounds were evaluated by high performance liquid chromatography, H1 NMR, and C13 NMR. Assessment of CX-32 and CX-35 Read More

A series of mono, bis and mixed Schiff bases (1-7) were synthesised and evaluated for potential anti-glycation and anti-oxidant activities using the bovine serum albumin - glucose assay and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical assay respectively. All compounds showed significant (p < 0.05) antiglycating activities with IC50 values (4.02 x10-24 ± 0.1 – 2.88 x 10-1 ± 1.35 mM) which were lower than the standard positiv Read More

Kaempferol-3-O-α-L-rhamanopyranosyl-(1'''-6'')-β-D-glucopyranoside (1) (Nicotiflorin or kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside), isolated from the aerial parts of Osyris wightiana Wall. ex Wight, exhibited a potent antiglycation activity in vitro. A short and efficient route to kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside (1) is also described in this paper. To study the structure-activity relationship, few other derivatives of kaempferol were also evaluated for thei Read More

Benzimidazole derivatives 1-24 have been synthesized and their in vitro β-glucuronidase inhibitory activitiy was evaluated. Compounds 15 (IC50 = 6.33 ± 0.40 μM), 7 (IC50 = 22.0 ± 0.33 μM), 2 (IC50 = 23.1 ± 1.78 μM), 17 (IC50 = 23.9 ± 1.46 μM), and 3 (IC50 = 33.8 ± 1.61 μM) showed more potent β-glucuronidase inhibitory activity than the standard (D-saccharic acid 1,4 lactone, IC50 = 48.4 ± 1.25 μM). This study has identifi Read More

The 2,4,5-triaryl imidazole derivatives (API) were designed, screened and characterized kinetically & thermodynamically against Pepsin and their activity was also tested on the in silico platform. The docking studies of API with Pepsin show that these are novel and unique inhibitors of Aspartic protease. Drug like properties of these compounds were validated in silico based on Lipinski's rule of Five by calculating ClogP, LogS, H-b Read More

In the present report, 3D-QSAR analysis was executed on the previously synthesized and evaluated derivatives of isoquinolin-1-ones and quinazolin-4-ones; potent inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα). Statistically significant 3D-QSAR models were generated using 42 molecules in the training set. The predictive ability of models was determined using a randomly chosen test set of 16 molecules, which gave excellent pr Read More

Syntheses of thirty 2,4,6-trichlorophenylhydrazine Schiff bases 1-30 were carried out and evaluated for their in vitro DPPH radical and super oxide anion scavenging activities. Compounds 1-30 have shown a varying degree of DPPH radical scavenging activity and their IC50 values range between 4.05-369.30 μM. The compounds 17, 28, 18, 14, 8, 15, 12, 2, 29, and 7 exhibited IC50 values ranging between 4.05 ± 0.06-24.4 Read More

Preliminary investigations of our research team have shown that some pyrrole hydrazones posses strong inhibitory activity against the tuberculosis bacilli, and thus represent a new perspective for development of anti-tuberculosis agents. In this work the anti-tuberculosis activity of an in-house series of pyrrole hydrazones was investigated by quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) analysis and by pharmacophore mo Read More

The emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of several infections that were controlled in the past, associated with recent increase of bacterial resistance have created the necessity for more studies towards to the development of new antimicrobials and new treatment strategies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the in vitro synergy between different classes of important glucosinolates hydrolysis produ Read More

Alkylphenols have xenoestrogenic activity, which mimic the action of physiological estrogens and these mimicking activities are mainly mediated by nongenomic pathway. Nongenomic pathway plays a pivotal role in breast, endometrial and ovarian cancers' growth and development. In this study, various alkylphenol derivatives were prepared and screened for their anti-uterotrophic and uterotrophic activity. Among these compoun Read More

A 2-Dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship study has been performed on 2 series of hepatitis C virus (HCV) inhibitors, i.e., Isothiazoles and Thiazolones. In each case significant correlations are found between the anti-HCV potencies and some physicochemical, electronic and steric properties of the compounds, indicating that for the first series the activity is controlled by density and two indicator paramet Read More